Month: August 2007

  • 2007/08/31 Lobbying Could Cause Legal Trouble for Microsoft

    Here is a story about Microsoft:     Lobbying Could Cause Legal Trouble for Microsoft Posted by Zonk on Friday August 31, @05:00PM from the keep-it-above-board-maybe dept.   Rob Isn’t Weird writes “In the wake of the exposure of Microsoft’s attempt to buy Sweden’s vote on OOXML and Sweden’s annulment of that vote due to…

  • 2007/08/30 Can Apple + AT&T Shut Down iPhone Unlockers?

    it has been deleted for the ads that were on it. sorry to have this happen. Ryan Orser

  • 2007/08/29 Hardy Heron Announced!

       Here is comes the Hardy Heron! Ubuntu Hardy Heron Announced Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday August 29, @01:58PM from the limping-llama-still-to-come dept. Jono Bacon, Community Manager for Ubuntu, has announced development on the next version of the popular Linux distribution name “Hardy Heron“. “Not only will the Ubuntu community continue to do what it…

  • 2007/08/28 Happy Birthday!

    I would just like to say: Happy birthday to Emily from her brother! that is all for today.

  • 2007/08/27 Skype Linux Reads Password and Firefox Profile

    Here is a story from slashdot: Skype Linux Reads Password and Firefox Profile Posted by samzenpus on Sunday August 26, @11:40AM from the to-send-better-ads dept. mrcgran writes “Users of Skype for Linux have just found out that it reads the files /etc/passwd, firefox profile, plugins, addons, etc, and many other unnecessary files in /etc. This…

  • 2007/08/26 No Post Today

    Sorry I am feeling sick so there will be no post today.

  • 2007/08/25 FOSS License Proliferation Adding Complexity

    Here is a story about FOSS Licensing: Posted by kdawson on Friday August 24, @04:51PM from the do-what-i-say-no-me dept. E5Rebel writes “Business is embracing open source like never before, but the effective demise of SCO’s claims against Linux doesn’t mean an end to licensing problems, an analyst warns. The debate on Slashdot seems to focus…

  • 2007/08/24 There will be no post today:

    I am feeling sick and cannot stop coughing so there will be no post today

  • 2007/08/23 Gutsy Gibbon Tribe 5 Released:

    To get the Tribe 5 CD of Gutsy go here There has been a few technical difficulties since the router that was working on my network decided not to display the sites anymore. Sorry about that I have been out today getting a new router so now I can post on the site again. Ryan…

  • 2007/08/21 Benchmarking Power-Efficient Servers

    Here is a story from slashdot about Benchmarking Power-Efficient Servers: Benchmarking Power-Efficient Servers Posted by kdawson on Tuesday August 21, @10:22AM from the fair-and-balanced dept. modapi writes “According to the EPA, data centers — not including Google et. al — are on track to double power consumption in the next five years, to 3% of…